[MOSAIC] Short non fiction text for middle school

[Lucinda Marcello]

I just purchased this book at our Scholastic Book Fair, Oh Yuck! The 
Encyclopedia of Everything Disgusting.
I can't keep it on my bookcase in the class.

What a great idea for sharing nonfiction.
Thanks for the great tip.

Lucinda

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> In terms of appealing, short nonfiction, I often use excerpts from Oh 
> Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Disgusting and the
> counterpart for history.  High appeal, strongly informative, lots of voice 
> and craft.   These texts would make good resources
> for selective photocopying.
>
> Lori
>
> On Thu, 10 May 2007 09:35 , Carol Carlson <carlsonca at dist102.k12.il.us> 
> sent:
>
>>Hi, all,
>>
>>As we look deeper into our curriculum, we realize that we are not
>>explicitly teaching non fiction text structure, especially compare/
>>contrast, cause effect etc. Research states that if students can
>>identify text structure, they are better able to comprehend the text.
>>
>>I looked at the Write time for Kids and Exploring Non fiction from
>>Teacher Created Materials. But they don't seem to meet the above needs.
>>
>>Do any of you have an anthology type that would cover the above
>>benchmarks? We are trying to not review all of our anthologies, but
>>hoped that we could find it in one place.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Carol
>>LA Content Specialist
>>La Grange, Il
>>
>>
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